Santi Denia: My players should be proud

• The Spain manager discusses a reasons behind his side’s 5-2 detriment to England 
• Denia also reveals his feelings after a reverse
• “The boys will grow as people and as footballers”

After responding a final doubt during a post-match press conference, Santi Denia rose from his chair to leave and was held off ensure by a extemporaneous turn of acclaim that swelled opposite a room. The approval took him by surprise, yet he confirmed his composure, gestured his interjection and finished his exit.

Shortly beforehand, his Spain side let their lead trip opposite England to remove 5-2 in a final of a FIFA U-17 World Cup India 2017.

“It’s not a consolation, yet we accept it on interest of a team,” Denia told FIFA.com only a few seconds after receiving a ovation. “It’s for them given even yet we didn’t win, they had a good tournament.”

That was also a summary he gave his players after a final whistle: “I collected them together on a representation and told them to cry if they wanted to, yet that they should reason that award in their hearts and wear it around their necks, given it’s not something we grasp simply and they worked like organisation to acquire it.”

The 43-year-old manager certified that throwing divided a two-goal lead was a toughest partial to accept about a defeat: “It’s really formidable meaningful that we weren’t means to reason on to a advantage. The idea they scored only before half-time harm us. At a break, we told them we were in a good situation, yet we only weren’t means to keep it up.”

Asked for an reason as to what happened, Denia said: “We should’ve had some-more control of a ball, yet it wasn’t easy. The spaces behind a counterclaim invited them to run during us, yet a pivotal was carrying possession. And we failed.”

He paused before continuing: “We could even have scored another idea in a initial half… yet we have to give credit to England. They’re a good organisation and they were in glorious figure physically. we honour them.”

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Denia’s assign now is to collect his charges adult again following a defeat. “They’re going to knowledge a tough time and they’ll feel down. They’ll cry. Nobody can forestall them – or me – from feeling that. But they should be unapproachable of a work they’ve finished over a final dual years. If not, they’re being really astray to themselves.”

On a personal level, a former Albacete and Atletico Madrid defender, who has been in assign of Spain’s U-17 side given 2010, is transparent about what a destiny holds: “To continue a illusory knowledge of being manager during this level, to keep producing crops of players, and for everybody to keep flourishing within a inhabitant association.”

On a theme of his players, what does he make of a prospects of his stream ensemble, with Sergio Gomez awarded a adidas Silver Ball and Abel Ruiz a adidas Bronze Boot in India?

“If they keep on desiring that a many critical thing is a organisation and a team, afterwards they’ll develop,” he said. “They have talent and particular quality. They’re only a step divided from a veteran diversion and this knowledge during a top turn – and there is no turn aloft than this – will offer them good as people and as footballers.”

Article source: http://www.fifa.com/u17worldcup/news/y=2017/m=10/news=santi-denia-my-players-should-be-proud-2918157.html